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"We can be heroes just for one day " Voor altijd in mijn/ons hart ❤️In Memoriam Ben Jager middengroningen.pvda.nl/nieuws/in-memo… @JulianBushoff @PvdA

Israel has again targeted a medical center for Al-Risala Association in Kafra, Lebanon. Targeting medical facilities is a war crime.

BREAKING: Donald Trump just posted the most revealing statement of the war. Not because of what it says about Iran. Because of what it says about the country that started it. “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.” Read the architecture of that sentence. The United States launched strikes that killed Khamenei and closed a strait that was open on February 27. The closure created a jet fuel crisis across Europe. And now the President is telling the countries suffering from the crisis his war created to either buy American fuel or send their own navies to reopen the waterway his campaign shut down. He started the fire. He is now selling the water. And he is mocking the neighbours for not helping him light the match. “Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!” The hard part is done. But the strait is still closed. The IRGC still operates the toll booth. Nine vessels transit per day versus 138. A Kuwaiti supertanker burned off Dubai this morning. Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, said it best from the other side: “The enemy that claimed it had destroyed our air force, navy and missile forces has now set its operational ambition to opening the Strait of Hormuz, a strait that was open before the Ramadan War began.” Trump and Ghalibaf are describing the same paradox from opposite ends of the same burning strait. And now look at what “buy from the U.S., we have plenty” actually means. In January, the United States overthrew Maduro and seized operational control of Venezuelan oil exports. Nine hundred thousand barrels per day, redirected from China to American and European refiners under General License 52, with proceeds flowing to a US Treasury account. The US created alternative supply BEFORE launching the strikes that destroyed the existing supply route. It is now offering to sell that alternative supply to the allies whose energy it disrupted. The arsonist is the fire department. The toll booth operator is the rescue service. The United Kingdom is in COBRA meetings today because of this. Petrol has risen to 152 pence per litre. Diesel is at 181 pence. Jet fuel prices have doubled. Household energy bills are forecast to rise £300 by July. The OECD has downgraded UK growth to 0.7 percent, the largest cut among G20 economies. Ten-year gilt yields have hit levels not seen since 2008. The Bank of England is frozen at 3.75 percent, unable to cut into an energy-driven inflation rebound. Starmer says he “won’t buckle” and will not send warships. Trump says the UK has “delayed courage.” The special relationship is now a transaction where one side sets the terms and the other absorbs the cost. “The U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.” This is not a statement about Iran. This is a statement about the post-war order. The United States is explicitly telling its closest ally that the era of guaranteed security is over, that Hormuz is someone else’s problem, and that American fuel is available for purchase at market rates. The country that spent 80 years guaranteeing freedom of navigation through the world’s most important chokepoint is now telling its allies to buy their way out of the crisis or fight their own way through it. The strait was open before the war. It is closed now. And the country that closed it is selling jet fuel to the countries that cannot get any. That is the 2026 world order in one Truth Social post. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

BREAKING: France has closed its airspace to weapons shipments to Israel, Trump confirms.

Droogte, hitte en natte voeten: 'Aanpassen aan klimaatverandering is geen keuze' nu.nl/klimaat/639096… via @NUnl

Een genocide op Palestijnen in Gaza. Straffeloos kolonisten terreur op de Westbank. En nu ook invoering van de doodstraf voor Palestijnen. Het NLs kabinet moet zich in Bxl onmiddellijk inzetten voor opschorting van het associatieakkoord met Israël. Aangemeld voor vragenuur.

Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrates inside the Knesset after the passage of the “execution of prisoners” law against Palestinian prisoners behind bars.

Breaking | The Knesset officially approves the execution law for Palestinian detainees, with 62 in favor and 47 against.

Israeli war crimes in the last 24 hours have killed a Lebanese army soldier and a UNIFIL peacekeeper. Report from Al Mansouri.

Live nu.nl/midden-oostenc… via @NUnl

De jongerenbeweging van Progressief Nederland heeft nu ook een nieuwe naam: Protest volkskrant.nl/ts-b1c982e4/

Aangrijpende foto’s over het leven van Iraniërs tijdens de #IranWar. Fotocredit: Vahid Bayat

Report from Burj Qalaway, where two days ago the Israeli army bombed a medical facility, killing 12 medical staff. Americans, this is happening on your dime. Cameraman: @aliezzedine7

Echt ongelooflijk! Benieuwd hoe Kabinet Jetten @MinPres hier op gaan reageren begin vlg week. #doodstraf #Palestijnen. nos.nl/artikel/260817…

Arme Iraniërs: een veelzeggende foto uit Teheran vandaag. Fotocredit: Mehdi Ghasemi

@HermanMeeuwiss1 @Karinkaatj @ViefSch @PVV_Delft Yep idem, mijn ouders waren 12,5 jaar getrouwd toen ze hun eerste eigen sociale huurwoning kregen. Getrouwd in 1946.

@Karinkaatj @ViefSch @PVV_Delft Je hebt 100% gelijk! Het is de overheid die door de jaren heen heeft gefaald. Mijn zus (nu 90) trouwde en begon op een zolderverdieping in Haarlem en later door bemiddeling van de huisarts in twee kamers bij een stinkend rijke weduwe met een huishoudster en en een huisknecht.

Het probleem is niet te weinig woningen. Het probleem is te veel statushouders ad.nl/delft/delft-wi…

Twee prominente Libanese journalisten gedood tijdens een Israelische aanval op hun auto in zuid-Libanon.

Jane Fonda: “This is the first time in the history of the US that an authoritarian regime has broken through. Worldwide historians who study these things all agree it has never happened so fast in any industrialized democracy. He is moving to consolidate very very fast which means right now we have to use the tools we have to stop it”

Wij kennen de sms’jes, het ge-hai en ge-hoi, de jokkenbrokkerij, het selectieve geheugen, de rookmachine volkskrant.nl/ts-b6359504/

In deze column van @RPlasterk staan een aantal storende onjuistheden en bewust gecreëerde onduidelijkheden. Ik noem er zeven. 1. Allereerst de titel; die is storend, grievend en feitelijk onjuist. Er worden geen kinderlichamen 'omgebouwd' in Nederland. 🧵1/11

Reports from Israeli massacres in Saksakia. Americans, you have blood on your hands. Cameraman: @aliezzedine7